Also noted:
- The snows of Kilimanjaro are rapidy vanishing.
- Arctic sea ice is up to 40% thinner than it was in the 1960s.
- The first recorded South Atlantic hurricane was in March 2004.
- Lake Chad* covered 9650 square miles in 1963. Today it covers less than 500.
- A melting glacier in the Yukon revealed an 8-foot-tall, half-mile-long pile of ancient caribou dung.
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* Lake Chad is in Africa. Footnote provided for those of you who might not know where that lake was, because you did not hear a 6th grade geography report read by a girl who was obsessed with the country of Chad on the continent of Africa ... chosen specifically because the boy she liked was named Chad.
My report was on Peru. All I remember about Peru is that their capital is Lima (pronounced leeeema not lyma). I did not like a boy named Peru. I chose Peru because there wasn't a country named "Chris" at the time. Still don't think there is. They should do something about that. Get those kids involved in their educations, I say!
I think the closest we have to a country named "Chris" is the tiny land of Monaco.
ReplyDeleteBut the question remains, "Is our childrens learning?"